Alright, its been a little bit since I’ve written anything. There’s a few reasons for that. One is that I’ve been so busy with work this week and preparing for the move to the new office that I can’t tell which way is up, and which is down. Monday I was busy doing prep work with acids and bases on a warehouse floor to get it ready for paint.

This was then followed by a 7 am flight on Tuesday for the NAB convention down in las vegas. The show was amazing in the overload sense. I might eventually post a full review of it but we’ll say now that I learned a good bit about what my companies customers actually do, and that apple seems to have a solid foothold on the 30 inch displays, as well as the 24’s. That was followed by a company party at a brew house down in Vegas, which was quite relaxing actually after my feet had been telling me to get off them long ago. A couple of waters later and a glass of chardonnay and It was back to the airport to get up to Reno again

Today I’m painting the warehouse, with a very aromatic epoxy paint. So that pretty much sums up why I’ve been missing for the past few days.

As the unfortunate side effect of that, the x86 team gained a few more bugs to our queue, and instead of getting closer to 0 we’re almost at 50. The two post quiz Arch Testers, David Morgan and Matthias Langer, have been a big help. The x86 team also has two people in their pre-quiz process as well, Mark Kowarsky and Sander Knopper, have also done a lot of good work to help out the x86 team. Thanks to all four of you. No, its not just the fumes getting to me and I’m delirious and saying thank you to everyone.

One thing that has been frustrating me a bit lately, has been the fact that I’ve no time for side projects, one of which is a design for gentoo that I think developers will like and hopefully use, just need time to sit down and do it. I’ve been basically coming home from work and catching up on emails and bugs till the time I head for bed. In some ways its relaxing actually doing the work (no you don’t need to get the padded room ready for me quite yet), just the lack of progress that seems to be happening on the bug count gets depressing. The other side project that’s just brewing in my head literally is the addition of themes to my website. I have a fairly complex but at least the finished product looks beautiful in my noggin, hopefully it’ll look as good once I can do it as well.

Finally, I also have a nice new mini-itx system to build as the replacement for my p3 500. Hopefully, in the near future you’ll see this site hosted on the new box. Its actually a upgrade in more ways then one, and quite happily should be a fairly decent power savings as well. I calculated it and its something like 60 watts of difference even while at max power.

One of these days, I might actually write a short entry. We are also still looking for more of you wanting to be x86 arch testers.